At 15, Waters was chairman of the Cambridge Youth Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (YCND), having designed its publicity poster and participated in its organisation. Waters attended Morley Memorial Junior School in Cambridge and then the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys (now Hills Road Sixth Form College) with Syd Barrett, while future Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour lived nearby on Mill Road and attended the Perse School. Waters's earliest memory is of the V-J Day celebrations. Following her husband's death, Mary Waters, also a teacher, moved with her two sons to Cambridge and raised them there. On 18 February 2014, Waters unveiled a monument to his father and other war casualties in Aprilia, Italy and was made an honorary citizen of Anzio. He is commemorated in Aprilia and at the Cassino War Cemetery. He was killed five months later on 18 February 1944 at Aprilia, during the Battle of Anzio, when Roger was five months old. He later changed his stance on pacifism, joined the Territorial Army and was commissioned into the 8th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers as a Second Lieutenant on 11 September 1943. In the early years of the Second World War, Waters's father was a conscientious objector who drove an ambulance during the Blitz. His father, the son of a coal miner and Labour Party activist, was a schoolteacher, a devout Christian, and a Communist Party member. Waters was born on 6 September 1943, the younger of two boys, to Mary (née Whyte 1913–2009) and Eric Fletcher Waters (1914–1944), in Great Bookham, Surrey.
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